A Pohatcong Township
man has admitted to his role in a Warren County Oxycontin ring, while his father,
the alleged ringleader of the operation, is set to face trial later this month.

Brandon Stillo, son of alleged prescription drug trafficker Frank
J. Stillo Jr., is scheduled to be sentenced April 17 in state Superior
Court in Morristown, court records
indicate. The hearing will come three months
after the 27-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to distribute
drugs, according to records.

His father's trial, meanwhile, is set to begin April 30 in Morris
County, according
to court records.

Frank and Brandon Stillo, along with Brandon's brother, Jonathan,
were among the more than 40 people arrested in June 2009 in connection with alleged
drug trafficking. At the time, authorities said the ring grossed about $50,000
weekly by selling roughly 1,000 Oxycontin pills and other prescription
painkillers.

The Warren County Prosecutor's Office has since allowed many
of those charged in the ring, including Jonathan Stillo, to enter the pretrial
intervention program — a program that allows charges to be dismissed following
a period of supervised probation. Others, including Kevin Kane, a former Phillipsburg
High School teacher and assistant
football coach from Tatamy, are either serving prison terms or have already
been paroled.

Brandon and Frank Stillo are the only accused in the drug ring
to have unresolved cases.

Frank StilloCourtesy Photo

The elder Stillo, now 51, was indicted in 2010 on 164
charges, including the first-degree charge of leading a narcotics network. He
previously declined a 16-year prison sentence of which he would have had to
serve at least eight years.

He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted at
trial, authorities said previously.

Brandon Stillo, meanwhile, pleaded guilty in January to two
counts of conspiracy to distribute drugs, court records indicate. As part of the plea
deal, prosecutors dropped the four remaining charges.

The most serious of the charges to which he pleaded guilty, a
third-degree crime, carries a maximum of five years in a New
Jersey prison.

The deal comes more than three years after Stillo rejected a
plea offer that would have provided him with the choice between drug court or
three years in prison. He also would have been required to testify against his
father as part of the agreement.

Neither Stillo's public defender, Neill Hamilton, nor the
Warren County Prosecutor's Office were immediately available to elaborate on
the terms of the plea agreement or what the prosecutor's recommended sentence would
be.

Brandon Stillo remains free on $25,000 bail while his father is free on $200,000 bail, according to records.